“I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.”
― Can Life Prevail?
― Can Life Prevail?
“You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.”
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“I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.”
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“I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
The Man from Archangel”
― The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories
The Man from Archangel”
― The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories
“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.”
― The Art of Literature
― The Art of Literature
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